You are permitted to use images from the British Museum website subject to our terms of use. To license images for charged-for journals and publications, and other commercial uses, please contact British Museum Images. © The Trustees of the British Museum Using this image Commercial use Below, a continuous band of maeander above, on a moulding a band of back-to-back palmettes, oblique round the handles, egg pattern. Brown inner markings, hair of Dionysos, and sandals of Hermes. Purple inscriptions, ivy-leaves, cord of petasos, fillet in b. The figure on left wears a fillet with straight piece over the forehead. Between two draped ephebi, each with a long staff or rod, a nude athlete, holding a jumping-weight (halter) in each hand, prepares to jump to left. The thyrsos of the other Nymph has an ivy-shoot springing upwards from near the butt. Both the Nymphs wear an Ionic chiton and a mantle. On the left a second Nymph, Tethys (?), stands, leaning forward with left foot on a high rectangular base, raising her left hand as if beckoning to the child along her right arm she has a long staff terminating in two forked ivy-branches. The infant, whose body faces Hermes, turns round to right and extends both its arms towards a Nymph, who stands with left hand on her hip, and leaning with the butt-end of her thyrsos on the rock her right foot is drawn back and rests on the toes: her hair is looped up, and she wears a woollen fillet and an ivy-wreath above her, her name, MAINAS, ?aî?a?. Above them their names are inscribed, ?S, '?µ?, ?O?SS, ?s?. Hermes, beardless, with fillet, petasos knotted under his chin, chlamys, winged endromides, caduceus in his left hand, is seated on a rock to right, looking down at the infant Dionysos, whom he holds by the body in both his hands. (a) Hermes confiding the infant Dionysos to the Nymphs. Side a of Pottery: red-figured bell krater.
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